Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] hold [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karl Marx was not the only economist who died holding this belief . |
| 2 | Certain non-royal persons , all of whom were men who had held official posts , were honoured as gods during the course of Egypt 's long history . |
| 3 | The three remaining seats were won by members of the opposition alliance of the Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) and the Parti Mauricien Social-Démocrate ( PMSD ) who had held 13 seats at sissolution ; one of the successful opposition candidates was the alliance and MLP leader , Navin Ramgoolam . |
| 4 | Also expelled from the central committee and the party was Aldana 's associate Raúl Castellanos , who had held overall responsibility for education . |
| 5 | A child whose father had never allowed the tantrums , who had held rational behaviour out as the price of his love . |
| 6 | Her father was a life peer who had held some sort of office under a Labour government . |
| 7 | Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor . |
| 8 | Lee Kuan Yew , the former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister who had held this post for some 35 years , would continue to serve as a member of the party 's central executive committee . |
| 9 | Berri , who had held ministerial posts in a number of Cabinets during the 1980s and 1990s , replaced Hussein al-Husseini who had resigned in August after losing his seat in the general election [ see p. 39071 ] . |
| 10 | Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza , a prominent conservative politician who had held ministerial office on numerous occasions , died on Jan. 2 , 1990 , at the age of 80 . |
| 11 | Miyazawa was elected as LDP leader and Prime Minister in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] , succeeding Toshiki Kaifu who had held both posts since August 1989 [ see pp. 36849-50 ] . |
| 12 | He knew Reni well , as he was the only scribe who had held high office both under Akhenaten and the new regime . |
| 13 | Under the basic criteria for the restoration of Latvian citizenship and naturalization , approved by the Supreme Council by 93 votes to 30 with seven abstentions , citizenship would be granted automatically to anyone who had held Latvian citizenship before 1940 ( the start of Soviet occupation ) , and to their descendants , even if they were not currently resident in Latvia . |
| 14 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Many feminists , including Millicent Fawcett , who continued to hold this view , left the NUSEC in 1926 . |